Wear You Are Now

THE MOST TREASURED ITEM IN YOUR CLOSET

Whether you’re a regular reader or an occasional visitor, Wear You Are Now is a place for you- my fellow kindred spirits who believe that fashion plays an integral role in making memories. And if you’re picking up what I’m putting down…

I AM A…

What do you want to be when you grow up? Throughout our lives, we’re asked this question time and time again. When we’re little, our answers tend to be born out of our wildest imaginations. A baseball player, an astronaut, or a princess…

HINDSIGHT IN 2020

Hello, old friends. It’s a new year; it’s a new decade; and there’s oh so much I want to tell you. I kicked off 2019 declaring my word of the year- a word to use as a guiding factor in my personal…

YAY OR NAY? CLOTHING SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES

It finally happened. I gave this whole “clothing rental” thing a try. Other than a one-item/one-time foray into Rent-the-Runway, this was my first real go at it. I know, I know- I might be the last one to arrive at…

Food

THIS ISH IS BANANAS

A few months ago, I made the decision to jump on the Whole30 bandwagon. For those of you who don’t know, Whole30 is not so much a diet as a program: one that eliminates the most common craving-inducing, blood sugar disrupting, gut-damaging, inflammatory food groups (aka “the fun stuff”) for a full 30 days. The idea is to take a step back and examine how the foods you’ve been eating actually affect your daily life and to negate the negative effects of the food choices you’ve been making. If you have low energy levels, chronic…

07/11/2017

Fashion

I’M WITH THE BAND

The first time I ever wanted to buy a band t-shirt was in the 8th grade. Up to that point, I had never really been to a concert and the only “cool” t-shirts I owned were old sports themed hand-me-downs from my aunt and uncle. But then I was invited to go with a friend (and her dad, because duh, we were 13), to my first ever concert; a concert that was not Backstreet Boys, or Britney Spears, or some other teenage dream. My first concert was Aerosmith- in all their middle-aged rockin’ glory. I…

07/11/2017